DRINK if you're a hipster

devincf wrote: nybt: hipsters almost always deny being hipsters. It's a weird phenomenon that I have seen again and again.

Candicssima is not a hipster. she's very cool, and fun, but NOT a hipster. how do I know this? my internal hipster alarm does not go off whenever I see her. and she doesn't wear a white belt.

see Robert or DJ Mike at Soda for more hipster-spotting tips & tricks.

devincf wrote: nybt: hipsters almost always deny being hipsters. It's a weird phenomenon that I have seen again and again.

See, that's the wrong way to look at it. If you have to brag about being a hipster, you're probably not.

nybt wrote: Ah! You're going to the age-old "I don't know how to define it, but I know it when I see it" argument!!

Okay, okay- I'll relent- She's not a hipster! and yes, she does seem to be a very nice, very cool girl!

You can totally know a hipster when you spot one: they have the scent of desperation and darting eyes that are checking to make sure you think they're cooler/as cool as everyone else around. They also act like they're in high school and trying to fit in with the popular kids. Pasttimes include buying every outfit on the mannequins in the stores to replicate in public and parrotting everything they just read in cool designated publications. And all hipsters are so unique because no one else anywhere has ever thought of coming to NYC to "make it."

Anyways...thanks to KateBklyn and Alafairnadia. Nice to know that payola gets you far nowadays.

Subject: Hipster, si o no?

We need an up-to-date hipster questionnaire. Online surveys always settle these matters fairly.

pensodyssey wrote: [quote=nybt][quote=alafairnadia]Candicssima is not a hipster. she's very cool, and fun, but NOT a hipster. how do I know this? my internal hipster alarm does not go off whenever I see her.

Ah! You're going to the age-old "I don't know how to define it, but I know it when I see it" argument!!

Okay, okay- I'll relent- She's not a hipster! and yes, she does seem to be a very nice, very cool girl!

I'll take up the gauntlet.

Candicissima told me she, like, shops at beacon's closet while listening to the Postal Service on her nano-ipod.

nybt wrote: Since we're getting off topic, how about this segue? We put together the list of hipster qualities. For every hipster quality you have, you take a shot at the next DH gathering... :twisted:

Oh, and to make it fair, this isn't only limited to Candicissima- accusers will be subject to "punishment" as well!

That's a bad idea because I actually might get alcohol poisoning and die! Hipsters are like chihuahuas, I'm Lucky the Ghetto Poodle. Both are little bitches, but I'm more entertaining.

You're just going to have to take the word of me and my henchwomen unless we do a side by side comparison with an actual hipster.

And EmilyM read my mind because the original version of this post had me suggesting a topic spinoff/poll!

Nice! Not a single hit on that list...oh wait, I might have Transatlanticism. But does it count if I only DL'ed it because of a Six Feet Under episode?

And your list corresponds only with the hipster subset also known as "corny indie fucks."

vanilla wrote: in my experience, the term "hipster" applies to those who we do not know (YET).

True. Hipsters wouldn't actively be on Daily Heights (cause they're crazy!) since it hasn't been reported in Vice or whatever as cool to make connections with your neighbors...unless you're in Williamsburg.

Muk wrote: I, too, love Elephant Six, but have been listening to The Hooters and Loggins & Messina all day to get the pendulum swinging the other way

(Note, that was a decidedly unironic smiley emoticon.)

[quote=t-fal]aw please don't lump elephant six bands and the flaming lips into that... my liver cannae handle it cap'n, i doon'hae the poower!

*dear readers, notice how i cleverly tied in a star trek reference, in a completely unironic fashion, as proof of my non-hipster cred.

i see your loggins and messina and raise you a diamond dave era van halen.

um. why is everyone forgetting the WHITE BELT OF HIPSTERDOM?
the aloof stare is also critical. last genuine hipster [tm] I 'met' was in williamsburg (ho ho!). I attempted conversation, beginning with a question like "so, did you just move to new york?" and he responded "uh huh", all the while looking around, aloofly, obviously projecting I'm-not-with-her.
he and I were both in attendance at the same party (party held by ex-hipster, obviously). er. I was tempted (but refrained -- I was still drinking back then. now ... who knows ...) to get up in his face and yell "look, I'm not trying to contaminate you with my non-hipster, non-ironic, un-cute vibe. I'm trying to make MOTHERFUCKING CONVERSATION, YOU WHITE-BELT-WEARING RETARD."
that might have been an overreaction. but on diet coke, anything is possible. oh, what I wouldn't give to have that night back ....

Muk wrote: My "hipdar" may not be as good as my "blackdar", but here's a start.

If any of these resonates with you, watch out...

Bettie Page haircut
Ironic mullet
PBR
Artforum
Ex-Williamsburg resident (Colonial Williamsburg does not count unless clothing was ironic gesture)
David Eggers
Alt comics: Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman, et al
Alt bands: too many to name, dammit: Conor Oberst / Bright Eyes, Flaming Lips, any Elephant Six band, Fiery Furnaces, Death Cab for Cutie, and on and on and on.

Methinks a lot of people will be drinking :shock:

I think a hipster would scoff at that list.